Key Manager 0.1.3.20081007
FIREFOX ADDON KEY MANAGER
KeyManager is a client side PKI tool for key generation, certificate enrollment, and identity and authority delegation.
Currently, Mozilla Personal Security Manager (PSM) allows import and export of keys but does not provide GUI for local key generation. We have extended the Certificate Manager wizard in Mozilla PSM and added the capability for key generation and SCEP based certificate enrollment. Our extension enables Mozilla PSM to act as a key management tool. In addition, the tool supports signing of proxy certificates for credential delegation and provides XUL based GUI for signing of XPI files as well as update manifest for FF3.
The KeyManager tool has following features :
- Generation of keys and X.509 based self-signed certificate
- Generation of PKCS#10 based Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
- SCEP based Certificate enrollment - it enables Firefox to acts as SCEP client. The SCEP client can be invoked from other extensions and XPCOM based components.
- signing of XPI files (for Mozilla add-ons) and archive files - provides an XUL based GUI for command-line signtool in Mozilla NSS
- signing of update manifest for FF3
- Signing of Proxy Certificates (RFC 3820) and other users' certificates
- Signing and verification of Attribute certificates (RFC3281)
- Exporting of private keys (in PKCS#8 and PKCS#12 formats) for soft-tokens, X.509 based public key certificate and generation of configuration file for OpenSSL based applications, such as cURL, Globus toolkit, etc. (You will find this feature very useful if are trying to use PKCS#11 complaint engines for Smart Card, e.g. OpenSC with OpenSSL based apps.)
For more info:
- Key Manager Tool: http://pubs.research.avayalabs.com/pdfs/ALR-2006-044.pdf
- Use case on on-line proxy certificate signing and credential delegation for Globus Grid based portal: http://pubs.research.avayalabs.com/pdfs/ALR-2007-023.pdf
Note:
The FF3 version of the KeyManager tool works only on following x86 based OS: Windows, and Linux, Linux-64, MacOSX.
The FF2 version of the KeyManager tool works only on following x86 based OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.
Note: For Ubuntu-8.04, this add-on works only with the FF3 downloaded from Mozilla site - this add-on will not work with Firefox3 that comes with Ubuntu distribution.
What is new in 0.1.3.20081007 software version? - This version (0.1.3.20081007) adds following capabilities to the existing version :
- Ability to import/export OpenSSL compatible Keys/certs and Synchronize with application specific keys/certs (please read the usage document for details)
- Mount Keys/certs in PKCS#8 and PKCS#12 files as soft-tokens
. What is expected in the future? Newly-made Key Manager 0.2 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 0.3 release build. You may download addon-4471-latest.xpi directly, estimated download time by ISDN or CDMA [~128 kbit/s] is 0:02:21. Just write the reviews of the Key Manager. System requirements are Firefox:3.0–3.1b2pre. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and Key Manager found to be clean. The following languages are supported by Key Manager: English.
